More Talking, Now with Pictures

talking with Molly Anne Bishop about her ceramic work

I was able to get some pictures from the Hand-Crafted Entrepreneurship Symposium. These are from the senior BFA critique. Thanks to Elizabeth Molinari for sending them to me! I really enjoyed my time with the VCU students. Friday of the symposium began with a three-hour group critique with the seniors and all the symposium presenters. Then after lunch we met individually with students for 30-minute one-on-one talks, six over the course of three hours. I was impressed with how interested and responsive the students were. I could tell they were working hard and thinking deeply about how to make their best work. It's always such a pleasure to speak with other artists about their work, especially emerging ones, and by the end of the day I was pumped. I left feeling excited and inspired.

Heather Mae Erickson taking a closer look at Molly's work

with Daniel Michalik, Heather Mae Erickson, and Alex Hibbitt as we talk with Maggie Davids about her steel and plaster sculptures

Alex Hibbitt talking with Frankie Toan about an interactive steel ring

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Metal 2012

A new show all about metal opens at Light Art + Design next weekend. My work will be there alongside some truly amazing artists. I will even be at the opening on December 8 so please join me if you live in the area.

Aran Galligan

Light Art + Design
Chapel Hill, NC

METAL 2012
Opening Reception December 7, 6-8pm
Opening Reception December 8, 6-9pm

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New!

$56.25 on sale...

Just added to my Etsy Shop and Holiday Sale...Small Earrings with French wires and a pendant version!

$52.50 on sale...

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Holiday Sale Cyber Monday

In 2011 I had my first-ever solo exhibition, "This is How I Remember It." I made two groups of work for the show and one was titled, "Collected Memories: 1974-Present." The series included over 30 pieces, all made with materials I had amassed, and each piece was based on my collection of jewelry and my memories of it. A little over a year later, it is now my first-ever Cyber Monday...The pieces that remain from "Collected Memories: 1974-Present" are available now at my Etsy shop and on sale for 50% off their original price. They were $150 and now they are $75.

Here is part of the artist statement for the work:

"The jewelry that has come in and out of my life over the years has had a profound effect on me, fueling and sustaining my desire to be a jeweler. These special pieces changed my perspective on jewelry and form part of my personal history.

In “Collected Memories: 1974-Present,” I analyzed the jewelry I own to discover patterns and to gain further insight into my history with jewelry. The completed installation serves as a timeline of my life with jewelry and a vehicle for intertwining events and people. The works are made using materials I have collected and are assembled in such a way as to emphasize the impermanence and incompleteness of memory.

“This is How I Remember It” chronicles my history and preserves my memories, as the individual pieces from my past act as primary inspiration.

I hope you will visit my Etsy shop today!

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Holiday Sale LIVE!

It's up and ready for you to see...My Etsy Holiday Sale! Everything is 25% off and shipping is FREE in the U.S. I will continue to add more work everyday until December 18, the last day for shipping. The sale will continue to run through December 31. Please check back Monday, too, for Cyber Monday specials...

I just sent a newsletter to my website mailing list and I want to repeat something I wrote to those recipients:

"It's always a pleasure to bring new work to you....Happy Holidays to you and your families. Be safe and be happy. I thank you for your support and lind words. I appreciate every single one of you. Thank you!"

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Holiday Sale Sneak Peek No. 3

Here's another Sneak Peek...My Etsy Holiday Sale starts tomorrow at 9:30am EST. All kinds of pieces from my Line Drawings, Borderlines, and Regal Graffiti series will be available, alongside a new collection, and everything will be 25% off. Shipping will be free in the continental U.S. (Regular shipping fees apply for all orders outside the U.S.) The sale will run through December but the last day for shipping will be Tuesday, December 18 at 12pm. I will have special offers on Cyber Monday and will continue to add more new pieces until December 18. Check back here for updates and further info.

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It's Holiday Time

The Holiday season is always hectic in the studio. This (see above image) is just a portion of what I've been churning out the last couple of days after returning from the symposium at VCU. I'm officially in machine-mode. Plus, leave it to my recently-returned-to-the-US-and-just-moved scattered brain to miscalculate my timing. I know we all feel Thanksgiving's early presence this year...

I just shipped bunches of work off to many of my galleries and will ship the rest on Friday. AND, I'm nearly done with the new pieces I've been talking about the last few weeks. These will be available on Friday when my Etsy Holiday Sale starts. Please check back here for another Sneak Peek tomorrow and, stay tuned, I'm pretty sure I've got a few tricks up my sleeve.

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